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That's everything I could come up with. Deaths were due to shortcuts.. Oracle was due to the sword fly over the circular room, Regret was at the beginning sword fly, QZ I fell off the gondola while trying to kill a flood, and Uprising was the fall at the end (very mad about that one). However, deaths aside, I think the run is very entertaining. I know you got 84:xx, slYnk, perhaps you would like to view this to see where you can speed things up? I perform every shortcut I can except flechette's crazy sword lunge on Gravemind, right after the hall way with the three brutes.

Not counting deaths, I only do horrible on Gravemind, nothing went right on that level for me, at all. Besides those, I think it's a good run. Who would like to see it and how would I go about doing it?

Also, would this warrant acceptance over at SDA? I'd like to get a speed run over there. I'm not sure if Cody submitted his over there, I don't see why they wouldn't accept it.

Congratulations! Hope I helped encourage you some.
I'd really like to see this run. A very low WMV (why should I care if I have VLC, hmm) or any type would be fine, Mythica would be good so it isn't that huge (250mb max).

Question about Cody's run for Cody or anyone that knows. How is his H2 Leg SS timed; Armory counted, levels load screens, end time at last attack on Final Boss or start of end scene, and why doesn't SDA have Cody's run?

What compression should it be? I never did any of this before for a big run. The raw file is 4.57 gigs, I don't think any of you would want that, haha. Perhaps I'll do a 300kb h.264 codec version so it's smaller for you guys to download.

Edit: Actually, I just tested out a 64kb/s h.264 file and it looked great! I'll compress it at 64kb/s.

if you are sending it to IA (and you should) a 700kbps h.264 mpeg4 with '700h264mpeg4' somewhere in the file name, and if you can, lighten it a bit

if you send them a lower res file, they will make it even lower and the quality will suffer

Yea, Internet Archive is great, it's just a little confusing how to upload (first you make an "article", give the article all your info, then you have 48 hours to upload it to the article, and their connection is REALLY slow...).

I'd like to see it. You beat two level records, so I'd at least like to see those parts.

I'm interested in Delta Halo, Sacred Icon and The Great Journey. My times have always been uncharacteristically high for those three levels, same with Oracle, but my time for Oracle ties your time, so atleast I know I'm not crazy on that level. I could probably get a 1:23:XX if I improve those three levels, maybe even lower. Haha @ Uprising and dying. When you see what I'm doing for that level, you will kick yourself.

Oh, for the next time I ever attempt a SS, I'll be trying to find that spot Cody went down on.

But for everything else I died on (for shortcuts) I'll still be doing those shortcuts no matter what. I'd want the time as low as possible and if it means dying on the shortcuts, I'll just practice harder for next time.

I'm really proud of the Armory though! I blazed through that level no problem!

You'll see what saves the most time on Sacred Icon. Of course I got lucky and was able to get a rocket but I did something before that of which isn't in any speedruns on this site.. as of yet.

This is great man, can't wait to download this. I'll comment/post it tomorrow. One thing though. Why is this under 'Open Source Movies' rather than 'Speedruns'?

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Originally Posted by djDAP

Question about Cody's run for Cody or anyone that knows. How is his H2 Leg SS timed; Armory counted, levels load screens, end time at last attack on Final Boss or start of end scene, and why doesn't SDA have Cody's run?

Twin Galaxies timed the run from the moment I turned on the xbox, until the last cutscene began. This was realtime, and the armory was counted, as well as loading times. The policy here at HSH is to time from when you first gain control of the character rather than power on.

One thing though. Why is this under 'Open Source Movies' rather than 'Speedruns'?

I don't know. I couldn't find an option for it. I'm sure I can edit it later on? I need to fix a few things including the title and that part you mentioned. I'm not too familiar with IA though so I can't say for sure if it'll get fixed.

Also, I had to record this to my VCR because my setup of recording straight to my computer doesn't work anymore for me. Therefore, the quality isn't as good as I'd want it. However, full screen-ing the video it's bearable.

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Originally Posted by Cody Miller

SDA doesn't have this run because I haven't submitted it to them.

How about submitting both of our runs, slYnki's full game run, and cheese4u32 & Numbnuts9's co-op run all at once?